{"id":97881,"date":"2026-01-12T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97881\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:15:06","slug":"2-teens-bring-loaded-guns-to-nyc-schools-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97881\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teens bring loaded guns to NYC schools, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two teens were found with loaded guns at two separate New York City schools on Monday morning, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said a 17-year-old was found with a gun at about 10:15 a.m. at Harlem Renaissance School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At about 11:10 a.m., a school safety agent spotted a 15-year-old with a gun at Long Island City High School. Police said the student is in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Both schools are non-scanning, meaning there are no metal detectors in place at the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>City education officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/student-with-gun-east-brooklyn-high-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in October <\/a>that the use of scanners and metal detectors is handled by the NYPD&#8217;s School Safety Division. Those protocols were created in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Principals can request scanners after weapons are found at school through a four-step process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The principal first must run the request by the school safety committee, school leadership, teachers, teachers&#8217; union, staff, students, parents, school safety agents, superintendent and borough safety director.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>All must approve before the process moves forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teens were found with loaded guns at two separate New York City schools on Monday morning, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,5126,469,9090,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-97881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-gun","10":"tag-harlem","11":"tag-long-island-city","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}